[Pkg-ltsp-devel] initramfs-tools broken

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:47:32PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> i just filed a debian bug against initramfs-tools (#380686) because it's
> support for nfs mounting is currently broken.  the busybox in etch/sid
> doesn't support nfs mounting (debian bug #348664), and initramfs-tools
> uses mount from busybox.
> 
> the simplest workaround would be to set BUSYBOX=n in initramfs.conf, but
> it fails to generate a functional initramfs image (and warns you that it
> won't work).

a slightly less simple(but functional) workaround is to add a hook
script that installs /bin/mount to /mount, and then hack
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs to use /mount directly. it's
ugly, but at least i can test ltsp now...

live well,
  vagrant